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where the succeeding winter prove rigorous, and 

 the freezing severe. It frequently happens dur- 

 ing the hard frosts of such a season, that both 

 branches and stock of the plant perish entirely. 

 Where unfortunately such is the case," I strongly 

 recommend that the plant should not in the 

 spring succeeding be eradicated, as is often in- 

 judiciously done among us. Where such perish- 

 ing occurs, the root is generally unhurt, and will 

 push new branches the following summer, though 

 such will that .season produce no fruit. It hap- 

 pens also sometimes, that the freezing is so 

 severe, and the injury to the stock so vital, that 

 vegetation above ground is hopeless. Still the 

 root may be unscathed. In this case a vacancy or 

 hollow should be made around the foot of the 

 plant, from the roots of which a new vegetation 

 will spring. The following year, such branches 

 should be pruned, as those of the plants or cut-' 

 ting of one years growth, leaving two or three 

 such branches, from which the year following, 

 the branches will be fully established. In case 

 it be found that on arriving at proper maturity, 

 the branches be more than are required for a full 

 heading of the new plant, the extra shoots may 

 be laid to supply a vacancy, should any such 

 exist, or where not required for that purpose, the 

 strongest should be left, and the others detached, 

 in the season of pruning the superflux vegetation 

 of the vineyard. When I advise that the lower 

 branch should be raised and carefully pruned, it 

 must, however, be understood, that such branch 

 should not be too near the ground, because where 

 such is the case, inconveniences ensue, which 



